Unibroue Don de Dieu

Brewed by Unibroue (Sapporo)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Chambly, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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I absolutely love this beer! Incredible aroma of citrus and floral. By far the best taste of any beer I’ve ever had. Highly recommened!

Pours cloudy yellow with big white head. Smells like a strong wheat beer. Lots of banana, clove and other spices with soft carbonation. This is a wheat beer on steroids, and still very well crafted. Med-full bodied. After taste is warm, spicy and has little lemon tartness. Another great brew from a great company.

This will need a re-rate as I don’t have full use of all beer rating tools (allergies with a stuffy nose, wrong glass, wrong temp). But I grabbed this one bc I saw it was given some "best beer of 2011" by a wine magazine award. This is a great summer time "regular". Pretty amber glow with white frothy head. My nose is too stuffy to give an accurate aroma analysis. Initial taste of apricots, heffe like with a banana hint, definite spice flourish not overpowering, corriander perhaps. Not a sour finish like many of the other wheaty summer brews. Just unoffensive all the way around, not too sweet, not too spicey, not too mild, guess it’s my "Goldilocks" of beers. I was surprised to see this was considered a Belgian Strong. -

341ml bottle. Aroma was mild coriander, light yeast and sweet fruity malt. Pours a hazy banana to school bus yellow with a big fluffy head, Left lots of lace. Taste is a mild coriander spice, fruity sweetness line banana or pineapple, wheat and yeast. Palate is full and dry. Overall, it is not Trois Pistol, but for a lighter Belgian style they didn’t let the coriander get all out of control like some Quebecois attempts.

It could have just been a bad day, but this is the BEST beer I’ve ever had.

It looks pretty -- cloudy golden, with a good head. Malty banana aroma with a sweet taste. Reminds me of a hefe, but sweeter and a bit more noticeable alcohol.

Opaque golden yellow out of the bottle with flecks of sediment. Thin white head. Hefe like nose, pineapple with the slightest touch of banana. Dry in the mouth, heavier than a wheat beer. Difficulty picking out a specific flavor though. Which is one of the only faults I can find. Long finish with banana making a return.

Pours a sharp cloudy orange with almost no head and no lacing. Nose is fruity & beady. Fizzier than I had expected. Taste is rather bland, a bit of bready, sweet over ripe fruit, good and malty. A bit sweet for the style IMO, but decent.

- pours super clear straw yellow with high white head. No lacing. S - bubble gum and funk up front . Hints of pineapple. M - heavy bodied sickly sweet. T - bubble gum/ belgium yeasts. Notes of way over ripe pineapple. All bubble gum. O - sticky sweet Belgian yeasts. 5.

Bottle 750 ml. Not much to say about this beer. A good one, but nothing special. Taste is good, althought it is kind of too sweety and the alcohol taste is very present (like in many Unibroues). Good carbonation. Tasted it along with a two years old (2010). Results were interesting: the fruit and citrus (orange) taste became much more present, as the alcohol taste became more hidden. Bouteille 750 ml. Pas grand chose à dire sur cette bière, Bonne sans être spéciale. Bon goût, bien que, comme plusieurs bières d’Unibroue, elle soit un peu trop sucrée et que le gout d’alcool est très présent. Bonne carbonation. Bue en même temps qu’une Don de Dieu vieillie deux ans (2010). Les résultats sont intéressants: le goût d’alcool s’estompe et celui des fruits et des agrumes (orange) devient très prononcé.

Originally reviewed: 3/8/09. Pours a mild orange with a popping fizzy white head that leaves quickly. No lacing or webbing present on the glass edge. Smells of pineapple, banana, and spices. Carbonation level is high in this one. Very crisp and fizzy in the mouth. I’d prefer it a tad smoother. Flavor is of pineapple, banana, vanilla, with a slight hop kick in the end. Finishes bready and leaves a tart aftertaste. Not bad. Drinkability is alright on this one, but there’s a few things they could improve on for sure.